i have an assignment at school about Moonta mining, chosen copper but i have problem with this question
In addition to soluble copper, you have to consider how copper is extracted from nature. Is it dissolved? or mined in some other way? If mined in some other way, what is the impact of digging into the earth to extract the ore? Whenever you dig a hole in the earth, you create a whole bunch of questions regarding impact. Also, if you scrape off the top of a mountain to get at the ore without digging a hole, what do you do with the unused portion of the mountain? Lots of potential environmental considerations.....once you think about it.
Soluble copper is tremendously toxic to plants, especially algae. Google copper toxicity plants 1.18 million hits
